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“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.”

Ifs World Feels Would Be Nature Tools Symbols Significance Mathematician Physicist

Book:The nature of the physical world

Source: The nature of the physical world

“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.”

People Trying Children Soul Moments Would Be Given Nature Clear Dangerous Fine Promise Mood Backgrounds Landscape Old People Debtors

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?”

People Ifs Humans Art Ends Would Be Grows Nature Natural Deals Common Bears Husband Understood Common Sense Pockets Justify Obliged Beard Not Happy Human Society Your Husband

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?”

People Thinking Humans Would Be Today Left Nature Wonder Happened Human Nature Emotional Vessel Dean

Author:Dane DeHaan

“Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Feelings Would Be Speak Nations Interest Nature Tree Worship Surprise Delight Woods Savages

Book:The Pleasures of the Life

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

Would Be Nature Beauty Mountain Garden Ugly

Author:Victor Hugo

“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

Source: Letters

“They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.”

Made Would Be Language Nature Imagination Animal Thousand Ten Speech Tragedy Burden Beast Portions Our Thoughts Disappearance Silencing Beast Of Burden

Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.”

Giving Art Light Would Be Earth Difficult Nature Quality Land Wind Pages Strive Weather Truest

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”

Ifs Knows Would Be Humanity Nature Flower Spring Flowers

Book:The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck

Source: The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck

“If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.”

Ifs Knows Way Stories Would Be Past Nature Love You Future Environmental Wilderness Our Future Our Past Let It Go Unwilling

Book:Red: passion and patience in the desert

Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert

“Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.”